- When is RIM gonna make BB a legitimate contender again? Anybody else think RIM is focusing too much on the playbook and not enough on their phones?gabedabomb likes this.10-18-11 03:01 PMLike 1
- The playbook looks cool, but as a phone user and not much of a tablet guy, it pains me to try and be loyal to RIM when I just got a new 9810 after loving my 9700 and still have to wait for these updates that seem to never come.10-18-11 03:12 PMLike 0
- Read the RIM press release from this morning people....QNX will be folded into something called BBX, and it will certainly NOT be backward compatible, so forget that notion. I am quite sure it will run on newer phones, so please, let's avoid the 10000 posts about BBX not running on a two year old phone. There was also NO mention of any delivery timeframe on this new ground up OS, so it could be forever knowing RIM. And whoever posted that RIM is putting all of their eggs into the Playbook basket is tripping. There was a report today in teh WSJ that RIM has a couple of hundred thousand unsold Playbooks.....they are dead in the water, and when the Amazon Fire comes out in two weeks or so, there will be just two tablet players.....Apple and Amazon. And if you think otherwise, I dare you to buy 500 shares of RIM stock.10-18-11 03:45 PMLike 0
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- Can't agree with that. The PB has shortfalls and hasn't sold well, but they are trying to overhaul it and remarket with 2.0. Plus, I don't think RIM is putting all of their eggs in one basket (PB), so to speak. BBX is brand new, hasn't been released and has infinite potential right now. Let's hope this can be amazing for RIM. I am.10-18-11 05:53 PMLike 0
- The benefit of a unified platform (BBX), is that they can focus on developing the SDK and ecosystem using existing hardware (Playbook) and have it apply to all future devices. They focus on the playbook because that is essentially the development kit for the ecosystem. It sucks that they didn't show off any phones, but I guess they want developers to get accustomed to the ecosystem before releasing the phones. Reality is that it can't be that hard to put the hardware together once the software is locked.10-18-11 06:05 PMLike 0
- Can't agree with that. The PB has shortfalls and hasn't sold well, but they are trying to overhaul it and remarket with 2.0. Plus, I don't think RIM is putting all of their eggs in one basket (PB), so to speak. BBX is brand new, hasn't been released and has infinite potential right now. Let's hope this can be amazing for RIM. I am.10-18-11 06:25 PMLike 0
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